"late afternoon in Hannibal, Missouri, and Twain's classic characters, Aunt Polly (Tom's aunt) and Mrs. Thatcher (Becky's mother) appear distressed in their concern for the youngsters, who are said to be late arriving home. Next, we see our three protagonists, Huckleberry Finn (Michael Shea), Becky Thatcher (LuAnn Haslam) and Tom Sawyer (Kevin Schultz) taking a shortcut home through the town's graveyard, where they encounter ""Injun Joe"" (Ted Cassidy). Furious at the two boys for testifying in court to seeing him murder Doctor Robinson, Injun Joe chases the three children into McDougal's Cave. As the spry children outrun him, an angry"
"When he puts it on and acts like a pirate, the cops hear him, and introduces the second story as he tries to avoid the cops. Huckleberry Finn (Peter) and Tom Sawyer (Chris) are best friends living in 19th Century Missouri. Huck lives with his nagging adoptive mom Widow Douglas (Lois), so he moves in with his abusive drunk dad (Stewie). After being whipped by his dad, Huck decides to fake his own death by murdering a pig (Brian) much to his objection as his character was killed in the last story. Huck then forgets why he killed the pig."
"Hicksville, Ohio Hicksville is a village in Defiance County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,581 at the 2010 census. Led by Henry W. Hicks, the Hicks Land Company platted the community in 1835 and 1836. A post office has been in operation at Hicksville since 1838. Hicksville was incorporated as a village in 1871. Hicksville made its debut in American literature in 1885 when Mark Twain mentioned the town in chapter 33 of ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."" Tom Sawyer claims to be a stranger from Hicksville, Ohio. Hicksville is located at (41.294281, -84.762078). According to the United States"
"from the MPAA for some mild violence and language. Huckleberry Finn is a half-literate son of Pap Finn, a drunk. One night, his father arrives and Huck is taken away to his father's home. Jealous of Huck's money being kept away, he attacks Huck, but eventually passes out from exhaustion. Huck fakes his own death and runs away. He is accompanied by Jim, a slave who worked for Huck's foster family, and escaped the family out of fear for being sold off. The duo follow the Mississippi River to Cairo, Illinois, so Jim can escape to freedom without being arrested."
"Jon Clinch Jon Clinch is an American novelist and teacher. Originally from upstate Oneida, New York, he graduated from Syracuse University and went on to teach American literature. Formerly creative director for various advertising agencies in the Philadelphia area, he now lives in Vermont. He has written stories which have been published in ""MSS"" magazine. In February 2007 Random House published his first novel, ""Finn"", a critically acclaimed backstory about ""Pap Finn,"" Huckleberry Finn's father from Mark Twain's ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884). Named an American Library Association Notable Book, ""Finn"" was also named one of the best novels of"
"Jeff East Jeffrey Franklin East (born October 27, 1957) is an American actor. Beginning his professional acting career at the age of fourteen, East is known for his portrayal of Huckleberry Finn in the United Artists feature films ""Tom Sawyer"" (1973) and ""Huckleberry Finn"" (1974), as well as for his portrayal of a teenage Clark Kent in Richard Donner's ""Superman: The Movie"" (1978). East was born Jeffrey Franklin East on October 27, 1957, in Kansas City, Missouri, to parents Ira and Joan Ann East. His father worked in real estate and his mother was a home-maker. East grew up with"
"""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", Washington Irving's ""Knickerbocker History of New York"", and many of Joel Chandler Harris' ""Uncle Remus"" stories. Kemble lived in the Rochelle Park area of suburban New Rochelle. Kemble died in Ridgefield, Connecticut in 1933, aged 72. E. W. Kemble Edward Windsor Kemble (January 18, 1861 – September 19, 1933), usually cited as E. W. Kemble, was an American illustrator. He is known best for illustrating the first edition of ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" and for his cartoons of African Americans. Kemble was born in Sacramento, California. In 1875, he was enrolled at a boarding school in Philadelphia,"
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry ""Huck"" Finn, the narrator of two other Twain novels (""Tom Sawyer Abroad"" and ""Tom Sawyer, Detective"") and a friend of Tom"
"Huckleberry Finn Huckleberry ""Huck"" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain who first appeared in the book ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"". He is 12 or 13 years old during the former and a year older (""thirteen or fourteen or along there"", Chapter 17) at the time of the latter. Huck also narrates ""Tom Sawyer Abroad"" and ""Tom Sawyer, Detective"", two shorter sequels to the first two books. Huckleberry ""Huck"" Finn is the son of the town's vagrant drunkard, ""Pap"" Finn. Sleeping on doorsteps when"
"Western New York Genealogical Society, the region's oldest and largest genealogy organization. Materials from most Grosvenor Room collections are for in-library use only and cannot be borrowed. Mark Twain Room: This special exhibition room at the Central Library is the home of Twain's original handwritten manuscript, ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"". Twain was a briefly a member of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library's predecessor, the Young Men's Association, and donated the manuscript of what is considered by many to be the greatest American novel. In 1885, Twain sent the second half of ""Huckleberry Finn"", believing the first half had"
"one day he would write a book about his English friend, and it is believed that the character of ""Hucklebury Finn"" was the result - with ""Finn"" being a reference to the blade or oar which Stanley used to achieve his greatest real-life successes. Mark Twain was, for a time, a mining prospector in Nevada, U.S., where, in Pershing county in that state, exist areas called Muttlebury Mines, Muttlebury Well and Muttlebury Springs. These areas are likely to have been named after one or other of Stanley's seven paternal uncles who, settling originally in what is now southern Ontario, Canada,"
"Huckleberry Finn (1920 film) Huckleberry Finn is a surviving American silent dramatic rural film from 1920, based on Mark Twain's classic ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"". It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. William Desmond Taylor directed ""Huckleberry Finn"", as he had the 1917 film version of ""Tom Sawyer"", using a scenario written by Julia Crawford Ivers, who also had been the writer for ""Tom Sawyer"". As described in a film publication, Huckleberry Finn (Sargent) has been adopted by the Widow Douglas (K. Griffith) who plans to ""civilize"" him. With Tom Sawyer (G. Griffith) he forms a"
"release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com. The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American live-action and animated television series that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1968, through February 23, 1969. Produced by Hanna-Barbera and based on the classic Mark Twain characters, the program starred its three live-action heroes, Huck Finn (Michael Shea), Becky Thatcher (LuAnn Haslam), and Tom Sawyer (Kevin Schultz), navigating weekly adventures within an animated world as they attempted to outrun a vengeful ""Injun Joe"" (voiced by Ted Cassidy). After the show's original run, the series"
"proved to be his final film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, his former studio. Neville Brand portrayed Pap Finn, Huck's alcoholic father. Some scenes in the film were shot on the Sacramento River, which doubled for the Mississippi River. In the pre-Civil War South, Huck escapes his brutal, criminal father by taking to the Mississippi River with a fugitive slave Jim. They have several adventures on their way to attempt to gain Jim's freedom. According to MGM records the film earned $1,950,000 in the U.S. and Canada and $800,000 elsewhere, resulting in a net loss of $99,000. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960"
"three of his siblings survived childhood: Orion (1825–1897), Henry (1838–1858), and Pamela (1827–1904). His sister Margaret (1830–1839) died when Twain was three, and his brother Benjamin (1832–1842) died three years later. His brother Pleasant Hannibal (1828) died at three weeks of age. When he was four, Twain's family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a port town on the Mississippi River that inspired the fictional town of St. Petersburg in ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" and the ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"". Slavery was legal in Missouri at the time, and it became a theme in these writings. His father was an attorney"
"E. W. Kemble Edward Windsor Kemble (January 18, 1861 – September 19, 1933), usually cited as E. W. Kemble, was an American illustrator. He is known best for illustrating the first edition of ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" and for his cartoons of African Americans. Kemble was born in Sacramento, California. In 1875, he was enrolled at a boarding school in Philadelphia, which was a center of artistic activity. His artistic talent was such that he was a successful contributor to periodicals by 1881. He became the major political cartoonist for the New York ""Daily Graphic"" while receiving his only formal"
"Theatre, Melbourne, as well as Festival Theatre in Adelaide. In pre-Civil War Missouri, near St. Petersburg, the vagabond child Huckleberry Finn describes the events by which he and Tom Sawyer had discovered a fortune. Huck has been adopted by the Widow Douglas and her spinster sister Miss Watson, and his guardians, Judge Thatcher, Huck's best friend Tom Sawyer, and practically the entire town inform Huck that he needs to learn to read and write and read the Bible if he ever hopes to go to Heaven (""Do Ya Wanna Go To Heaven?""). The only one who does not attempt to"
"The New York Times Bestseller list for 42 weeks in 1982–1983. Filmmaker, animator, and businessman Walt Disney spent part of his childhood in the Linn County town of Marceline before settling in Kansas City. Disney began his artistic career in Kansas City, where he founded the Laugh-O-Gram Studio. Several film versions of Mark Twain's novels ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" and ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" have been made. ""Meet Me in St. Louis"", a musical involving the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, starred Judy Garland. Part of the 1983 road movie ""National Lampoon's Vacation"" was shot on location in"
"The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American live-action and animated television series that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1968, through February 23, 1969. Produced by Hanna-Barbera and based on the classic Mark Twain characters, the program starred its three live-action heroes, Huck Finn (Michael Shea), Becky Thatcher (LuAnn Haslam), and Tom Sawyer (Kevin Schultz), navigating weekly adventures within an animated world as they attempted to outrun a vengeful ""Injun Joe"" (voiced by Ted Cassidy). After the show's original run, the series continued to air in reruns as part of ""The"
"the 1870s with the works of Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Henry James. Mark Twain (the pen name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast—in the border state of Missouri. His regional masterpieces were the novels ""Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876) and ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884). Twain's style changed the way Americans write their language. His characters speak like real people and sound distinctively American, using local dialects, newly invented words, and regional accents. Henry James (1843–1916) was a major American novelist of the late"
"Huckleberry Railroad The Huckleberry Railroad is a narrow gauge heritage railroad located in Genesee Township, Michigan, near Flint. The railroad operates alongside Crossroads Village, both of which are owned and maintained by the Genesee County Parks and Recreation Commission. The railroad received its name due to the story that a person could jump off the train, pick wild huckleberries, and re-board the train without difficulty, as it traveled so slowly. What is now the Huckleberry Railroad began operating in 1872 as part of the Flint River Railroad. The Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad later extended the branch line from Flint"
"Tom Franklin (author) Thomas Gerald Franklin (born July 7, 1963) is an American writer originally from Dickinson, Alabama, United States, ""a town of around 500 people in south central Alabama, near Monroeville, home of ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" author Harper Lee"". In a recent interview, Franklin reveals the role imagination played during his younger years as he grew up ""playing with G. I. Joes and imagining their lives. Building sci-fi forts from cardboard boxes and bricks, drawing control panels on the walls, etc. I liked creating the forts more than I did playing in them. There was something wonderful about"
"his epic poem about his New Jersey hometown, ""Paterson"", Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Langston Hughes, in addition to many others. Mark Twain (the pen name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast – in the border state of Missouri. His regional masterpieces were the memoir ""Life on the Mississippi"" and the novels ""Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" and ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"". Twain's style – influenced by journalism, wedded to the vernacular, direct and unadorned but also highly evocative and irreverently humorous"
"living with agent Henry Willson, and they were rumored to be lovers. Trent Durkin was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Junior Durkin Trent ""Junior"" Durkin (July 2, 1915 – May 4, 1935) was an American stage and film actor. Born Trent Bernard Durkin in New York City, he began his acting career in theater as a child. Durkin first appeared in films in 1930, playing the role of Huckleberry Finn in ""Tom Sawyer"" (1930) and in ""Huckleberry Finn"" (1931), both times with Jackie Coogan playing Tom Sawyer. Under contract to RKO Radio Pictures, he"
"The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993 film) The Adventures of Huck Finn is a 1993 American adventure film written and directed by Stephen Sommers, distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and Buena Vista Pictures, and starring Elijah Wood, Courtney B. Vance, Jason Robards and Robbie Coltrane; it is based on Mark Twain's novel ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" and focuses on at least three-fourths of the book. The film follows a boy named Huckleberry Finn and an escaped slave named Jim, who travel the Mississippi River together and overcome various obstacles along the way. The movie received a ""PG"" rating"
"prominence in recent years under conductor Leonard Slatkin. Branson is well known for its music theaters, most of which bear the name of a star performer or musical group. Missouri is the native state of Mark Twain. His novels ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" and ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" are set in his boyhood hometown of Hannibal. Authors Kate Chopin, T. S. Eliot and Tennessee Williams were from St. Louis. Kansas City-born writer William Least Heat-Moon resides in Rocheport. He is best known for ""Blue Highways"", a chronicle of his travels to small towns across America, which was on"
"birds, coyotes, and deer. Only limited research has been applied to define the content of essential nutrients in huckleberries, showing none with high content. Two huckleberry species, ""V. membranaceum"" and ""V. ovatum"", were studied for phytochemical content, showing that ""V. ovatum"" had greater total anthocyanin and polyphenols than did ""V. membranaceum"". Each species contained 15 anthocyanins (galactoside, glucoside, and arabinoside of delphinidin, cyanidin, petunidin, peonidin, and malvidin) but in different proportions. Huckleberry (""Huck"") Finn was a fictional character in the books The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), by American author and humorist, Mark Twain."
"States. His stories of middle and upper class life set in the 1880s and 1890s are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction. His most popular novel, ""The Rise of Silas Lapham"" (1885), depicts a man who, ironically, falls from materialistic fortune by his own mistakes. Other early American realists include Samuel Clemens (1835–1910), better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, author of ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884), Stephen Crane (1871–1900), and Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832–1899). Twain's style, based on vigorous, realistic, colloquial American speech, gave American writers a new appreciation of their national voice. Twain was"
"Huckleberry Finn (1974 film) Huckleberry Finn is a 1974 musical film version of Mark Twain's ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"". The movie was produced by ""Reader's Digest"" and Arthur P. Jacobs (known for his role in the production of the ""Planet of the Apes"" films) and directed by J. Lee Thompson. It stars Jeff East as Huckleberry Finn and Paul Winfield as Jim. The film contains original music and songs, such as ""Freedom"" and ""Cairo, Illinois"", by the Sherman Brothers: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. This film followed the previous year's highly successful ""Tom Sawyer"", based on Twain's"
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960 film) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a 1960 American film directed by Michael Curtiz. Based on the novel of the same name by Mark Twain, it was the third sound film version of the story and the second filmed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was the first adaptation of ""Huckleberry Finn"" to be filmed in CinemaScope and Technicolor. It starred Eddie Hodges as Huck and former boxer Archie Moore as the runaway slave Jim. Tony Randall also appeared in the film (and received top billing), and Buster Keaton had a bit role in what"
"work, ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"", is largely a journey down the river. The novel works as an episodic meditation on American culture with the river having multiple different meanings including independence, escape, freedom, and adventure. Twain himself worked as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi for a few years. A steamboat pilot needed a vast knowledge of the ever-changing river to be able to stop at any of the hundreds of ports and wood-lots along the river banks. Twain meticulously studied 2,000 miles (3,200 km) of the Mississippi for two and a half years before he received his steamboat pilot"
"career with the LAPD as a Senior Lead Officer. Michael is the father of Mike Shea, winner of the silver medal in snowboard-cross at the 2014 Sochi Paralympic Winter Games. Michael Shea (actor) Michael Shea (born November 4, 1952) is an American former child actor. Beginning a prolific career at the age of ten, Shea is perhaps best known for portraying the title role in the NBC children's television series, ""The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"", as well as for his feature film roles; as Nick in the Ivan Tors family film, ""Namu, the Killer Whale"", as Jimmy in the"
"Mark Twain Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876) and its sequel, the ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1885), the latter often called ""The Great American Novel"". Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for ""Tom Sawyer"" and ""Huckleberry Finn"". He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on"